Improvement in chair-seats



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT WOOD, OF WEST TROY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRYI. SEYMOUR, OF TROY, NEW-YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR-SEATS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 42, H50, dated March 29,1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT vWoon, of West Troy, in the county of' Albanyand State of New York, have invented new and useful improved chairseats, made by fastening narrow strips of veneers or thin wood acrossand to the seat-frames, as hereinafter described.

The drawings hereto attached are hereby made part hereof.

To enable others skilled in the art to use my invention, I would say asfol-lows My method of using my invention is to construct the seat-framein any usual way and ot',

any desired form, and to place narrow strips of veneers, or thin wood,at short intervals across such seat-frame, and the opposite ends of suchveneers into channels or grooves cut therein for receiving the same andthereto fasten them With glue or otherwise, thus form.- ing an open seatsomewhat like a caneseat. These strips of veneers may be placed fromfront to back ot' the seat-frame, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of saiddrawings, or diagonally, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any desireddirection; and the ends of the strips and the channels therefor may beshaped as shown on a large scale -in Fig. 4, or otherwise, or suchstrips may be placed upon the frame and there secured. v

Instead of one set of strips, as shown in Figs 2, 3, and 5, a second setmay be added and placed underneath and at right angles to the rst set,as shown in Fig. 1 or in any .desired direction, or the two sets may beinterwoven more or less, and grooves for such second set may be cuteither into the top or bottom side ot' the frame. Where only one set ofstrips is used, the same may be strengthened by one or two strips placedunderneath and crosswise of same or diagonally, or otherwise, or wiremay be used for this purpose. The seats thus made may be used in chairsof any desired construction, and chair-backs may b made in the sainemanner.

I/Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Chairscontaining seats or backs, made substantially as described, as a newarticle of manufacture.

Dated Troy, New York, January 23, 186i.

ROBERT WOOD.

Witnesses JNO. B. GELE, C. S. ALBEN.

